Geoff Litchfield

Originally from Leicester, Geoff Litchfield has been an artist and teacher for over forty years.

Much of Litchfield’s artwork explores the relationships formed by accidental and deliberate juxtapositions of images and the subsequent creation of a new narrative arising from them. He is captivated by the role of chance in creativity and devises strategies to enhance the effectiveness of the intervention of the random within his process.

The relationship between text and image is a recurring theme, stretching back to conceptual work in the late seventies and early eighties where Wittgensteinian approaches to language were explored in works addressing the tensions between object, function and nomenclature. A Duchampian and Lear-like love of word play and absurdity can frequently be seen. Humour remains an important device and is evidenced in recent collage works exploring formal and conceptual relationships between shapes and their semiology.
Recently, Litchfield’s work has largely been in the field of collage, allowing him to explore ideas quickly whilst still allowing themes, often political or autobiographical in content, to develop. Fascinated with the book as an art-form and with linear and non-linear narratives, he works in b...

1977-80 BA (Hons), Leicester Polytechnic
1981-82 PGCE (Art & Design), Leicester Polytechnic

Group Exhibitions;
1980- Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1981- “Some Matter in England”, St. Martin’s Gallery, Leicester
1981- Fosse Artists Group, Fosse Neighbourhood Centre, Leicester
1982- Knighton Lane Group, St. Martin’s Gallery, Leicester
1988- “Art Teachers in France”, Town Hall, Dieppe
1998- Elvedon Forest Sculpture Trail, Norfolk
2001- “Confessions”, The Forum, Norwich
2004- Ferini Gallery, Lowestoft
2004- Warehouse Gallery, Lowestoft
2007- “Stinkbomb”, Limbo Arts, Margate
2013- Buckenham Gallery, Southwold
2014- Buckenham Gallery, Southwold
2015- Buckenham Gallery, Southwold
2019- Brampton Willows Open Day
2019- “Life of Lowestoft”, Documentary project, Lowestoft Rising
2019- The Collage Garden, Cartagena, Colombia
2019- Postales desde el Limbo, Zaragoza, Spain
2020- “Assembly”, Lost and Found, Coolsingel, Rotterdam
2020- “Schwitter’s Army, Merz Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland
2020- World Collage Day, Twin Cities Collage Collective, Minneapolis
2020- World Collage Day, Arizona Collage Collective, Arizona
2021- National Absurdity Day, Galeria Start, Warsaw, Poland
2022- “Art Now”, Easterly Artists, First Light Festival, Kensington Gardens, Lowestoft
2022- “Stop Look Listen” Start Gallery, Warsaw
2022- “Art For All Seasons”, Ferini Ga...